Impulse Buys at the Grocery Check-Out

[SobaAddict70]

Ramen noodles.

insert gasps of horror here...

Soba

[Jaymes]

Magazines if they are food related or if they promise to dig me out of my chaos and get me "Organized at Last"!

Or, "EAT THESE FOODS AND LOSE WEIGHT!"

[Cusina]

Orbit Gum

Not usually a gum chomper, but when you need some you need some. You know?

[sparrowgrass]

Put me in the Weekly World News column. When it makes me laugh out loud in line, I buy it.

[NeroW]

Whatever's there. Gum, candy, lighters, highlighters, pens, stickers, baseball cards, Better Homes and Gardens booklets, cat-astrology booklets, etc.

[Basilgirl]

Martha Stewart's "Everyday Food." I can't bring myself to subscribe, but I think I've bought every issue.

Starbursts, Sour Skittles, Altoids Tangerine Sours.

[Larry]

Always Vogue, food magazines and Shape (for exercise tips to work off the food!). I must seem like a walking oxymoron to the sales clerk. Also, trident gum, you can never have too many packs.

[elyse]

Am I the only person who doesn't get caught at the register?

I'll buy a Snickers every blue moon, but that's only when I'm getting a hunger headache, and there's no other food around that I can eat in under two minutes. But that's the only thing. And it's not an impulse.

[SethG]

We can't all have your self-control, Elyse. Patience is all we ask.

Edited in case anyone thought I might be serious.

Edited December 10, 2003 by SethG (log)

[elyse]

Yeah, poverty does a lot for self control.

[howard88]

Anything chocolate.

[KateW]

Any sour candy, a nice cold lipton iced tea, peach if they have it, which they usually don't. A food magazine. Never bought a tabloid.

[JPW]

2 words

Sweet

Tarts

The most perfect candy ever invented. No other ingredients to get in the way of the sugar.